Monday, February 20, 2012

{ch ch ch changes}

Hey mom friends. I'm not sure that my little hiatus was totally intentional, but I just wasn't feeling like I had much to say. I still don't totally feel back to where I want to be, but I'm giving it another go. There's only so many things we can juggle in the air at once right?

So onto the next. I've always considered myself to have pretty good taste when it comes to designing spaces, but I've never been really great at the details: specifically shelf arrangement. In this house, we've been really lucky to have multiple sets of built-in book cases. We don't even own a seperate bookshelf (well we do, but we're using it as our seed growing station to start our garden each year). When we moved in, I focused all of my energy on the built-ins in the living room, because they were the ones on display. We have another set in the guest room that I never really touched (just through some pictures and candles on them on move in day), because we don't go in that room a whole lot.

Well, recently, as part of our need to change things up, we switched our bedroom with the guest room. They're both the same size and bathrooms are not attached, so it was kind of a toss up anyway. So, now these built-ins were getting to me, because I was staring at them twice a day.

So, to Pinterest I went! I studied others' shelf arrangments, and then armed with inspiration, I headed to Target (and Homegoods and Big Lots). I mixed some new things with some things we already had and came up with this:

The pictures came out a little wonky, because the light is tough in that room. The shelves are RIGHT next to a window.

I also bought a sweet new duvet to complete the room.

I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.

But of course, since I took these pictures another change has happened. Yesterday, we bought a new bed (king size!) and all new bedroom furniture. They don't arrive for a couple of weeks, so we'll consider this a progress post. :-) We also are planning on getting a new ceiling fan for the room this summer (because this one sounds like a plane engine as it's taking off).

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Love built-ins! We have them in our living room and one of these days I'd like to do a little spruce up. Pottery Barn has a neat website - not that I can afford their stuff, but it gives me ideas for when I'm at Target :)